[Hurdy]

Why don't you just connect it with a plus page for your username like it suggests? You don't have to use your real name. I don't know why the myth that YouTube requires a real name is going around even on HN...

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I think in part because it's so confusing as to what G+ is, what it encompasses, what plus pages are and what google will do tomorrow.

I think there were ways google could have made youtube comments better without linking them to google plus.